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Apr 8, 2024 · Sigismund II Augustus (born Aug. 1, 1520, Kraków, Pol.—died July 7, 1572, Knyszyn) was the last Jagiellon king of Poland, who united Livonia and the duchy of Lithuania with Poland, creating a greatly expanded and legally unified kingdom. The only son of Sigismund I the Old and Bona Sforza, Sigismund II was elected and crowned coruler with ...
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Sigismund II Augustus. Sigismund II Augustus ( Polish: Zygmunt II August, Lithuanian: Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the last male monarch ...
- 10 February 1574, Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland
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Rubens made few concessions to the particular aesthetics of tapestry painting—indeed, he painted most of his tapestry designs in oil on panel—but during the second third of the century, artists such as Antoine Sallaert (ca. 1580/85–1650), Justus van Egmont (1601–1674) , and Jan van den Hoecke (1611–1651) took a more considered ...
These famous tapestries, created in Arras, were collected by Polish Kings Sigismund I the Old and Sigismund II Augustus, whose reigns were between 1506 and 1572. The Valois Tapestries are a cycle of 8 hangings depicting royal festivities in France in the 1560s and 1570s
Feb 18, 2014 · The wefts are actually a collection of lots of separate pieces of wool or silk threads, all in different colors. A tapestry is made by repeatedly weaving the horizontal (weft) threads over and under the vertical (warp) threads, then squishing (or tamping) those horizontal threads down so they are very close together, thus completely hiding the ...
Tapestries are made up of two types of threads: the warp and the weft. To create a tapestry, the warp threads are first stretched out on a loom – a process that can take up to three weeks. The warp provides the structure of the tapestry. On a historic tapestry like the Solebay tapestry and other tapestries from the 17th century, the warp ...
